The Pale Rose: Cast of Characters

I wanted to post another piece of art from my mystery novella The Pale Rose, and thought I would include the character descriptions featured at the start of the book. Incidentally, this illustration is for the last chapter, and features the lead detectives, Charles & Amelia Humble. Cast of Characters Amelia Humble: A devoted wife…

The Pale Rose: A Housewife Detective Mystery Novella

My first mystery novella in the Housewife Detective Series is available for purchase from both Amazon.com and CreateSpace.com So be sure to order your copy soon!   Amelia Humble had a secret. She knew perfectly well that the criminal mind was something that proper ‘40s housewives, such as herself, just didn’t go poking about in….

The Pale Rose: “Following the Fireworks”

This illustration is featured in my first mystery novella The Pale Rose. I’ve always liked books that have interior illustrations, and being both a writer and an artist I was very excited to be able to include some as chapter headings in my mystery. You can read the full first chapter “Following the Fireworks”.

The Pale Rose: It started with a dream

I have a lot of dreams that I take inspiration from for stories, but I don’t think I have ever had a dream as vivid and as detailed as The Pale Rose. Almost every aspect of the story, the clues, the crime, the method, were part of my dream and when I awoke, it was…

A Mystery Cafe Girl

I’ve been writing like mad for the last little while and have just about finished my first novella. So exciting! Anyway, I thought I would post a little something, as a sort of teaser, if you will, that related to my book in a way. The cover art (which is just about finished as well)…

Frontier Ruby Cover

When I did the cover art and layout for Kerri Bennett Williamson’s 4th novel, Frontier Ruby, I took inspiration from a photo of a child doll, and imagined what she might look like as a twenty-something young woman.

Mrs. Rutherford Cover

Mrs. Rutherford is Kerri Bennett Williamson’s 2nd novel, and, incidentally my second cover as well. There has always been something about this one that seems to grab people’s eye. I have had numerous comments on it, and requests for it in print form. I’ve always liked the colors; and I think it gets noticed because…

Misfortune Cookies

Seeing as Thanksgiving is just around the corner, I thought I would post this little book I happened to do the cover for; which contains numerous examples of things you should be thankful are not happening to you. But if anything in this book has happened, is happening, or most likely will happen to you,…

Grim Reaper

I thought I’d post something for Halloween, and this Grim Reaper seemed to fit the spirit of the season. The shape of the scythe came into my head from seeing a random pattern on a wall. So I drew the scythe and attached a wielder to it, along with a murder of crows. And a…

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Oceana looking lovingly at her potential husband. Isn’t he gorgeous? Okay, seriously, he’s a little creepy. I’ll let you decide if she actually marries him.